Thanks to grants from the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust, Efroymson Family Fund, a CICF fund, and Normandie Foundation, Citizens Action Coalition Education Fund was able to establish the Central Indiana Environmental Education Program (CIEEP). The goals of this program are as follows:

Establish a financially sustained program to educate the general public about energy consumption, conservation and environmental issues in Indiana.
Reduce overall household energy costs for program participants by 2010 through measures that reduce energy consumption.

The CIEEP will achieve these goals over the course of the three-year program. During the first year, the Program Manager will be conducting a dozen public education classes at local libraries throughout Marion County. In the second and third years, the Manager will coordinate focus groups around Indiana that will use the Low Carbon Diet: a 30-day program to Lose 5,000 Pounds, written by David Gershon. This program provides concrete, affordable strategies people can implement in their own households in order to reduce energy usage, save money on heating and electric bills, and create a cleaner, healthier personal environment while contributing to a greater community effort to reduce consumption and embrace sustainable energy alternatives. One simple example is to use compact florescent bulbs that measurably reduce household energy usage.